Re: GtkFileChooser extensions

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 14:25, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> My suggestion would be to have a 
> context menu for the breadcrumb buttons that has an 'Enter location' 
> item 

Having a context menu on a button is a little odd; if we took this
approach, I'd be happier having a context menu available *wherever* I
right-clicked in the dialog, which included this menu item.  I'd even be
tempted to break the HIG guideline and show the Ctrl-L shortcut on any
such context menu, given that there's no other way to find out about it.

Of course, most users would still never think of right-clicking in a
file dialog anyway, but I guess the idea is that the Location dialog
should only be needed by "advanced" users once the type-ahead etc. is
working well.

> and/or have double click on a breadcrumb open the location dialog.

Hmm, double-clicking buttons is a bit iffy, I think.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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